2013

11/21/2013STScI-2013-5314.Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Astronomers using the combined power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered a far-flung... (More)

8/22/2013STScI-2013-3218.Hubble Takes Movies of Space Slinky
The universe is so big, and it takes so long for most celestial objects to change, that it is rare a telescope can catch something in motion. (More)

2012

11/30/2012STScI-2012-4222.'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)

2/2/2012STScI-2012-0830.Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)

6/22/2011STScI-2011-1735.Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans
A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes... (More)

2009

9/9/2009STScI-2009-2541.Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

1/10/2008STScI-2008-0448.Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)

5/15/2007STScI-2007-1751.Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)

8/21/2006STScI-2006-3955.NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56... (More)

9/14/2005STScI-2005-1362.Black Hole in Search of a Home
A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)

2004

7/22/2004STScI-2004-2163.A Day in the Lives of Galaxies
Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture... (More)

7/6/2000STScI-2000-2081.A Cosmic Searchlight
Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling... (More)

6/5/2000STScI-2000-2282.Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation
Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies... (More)

1/24/2000STScI-2000-0785.Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe
The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)

1/8/1998STScI-1998-0296.Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae
Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before our Sun even existed, the Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to determine that the expansion... (More)

6/10/1997STScI-1997-22100.Mysterious Fireball From A Cataclysmic Explosion
The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)